Thanks to The Environmental Law Institute (Spokespeople Jay Pendergrass and Lisa Goldman) For Their Contribution to “Is Renewable Really Doable?”

In my quest to unpack the issues of government subsidies and incentives, I wanted to ask the Environmental Law Institute to go on record and explain their graphic “Energy Subsidies Black, Not Green” and the accompanying paper, “Estimating U.S. Government Subsidies to Energy Sources: 2002-2008.” The organization believes that the current energy and climate debate would benefit from a broader understanding of both the explicit and hidden government subsidies that affect energy use throughout the economy. In an effort to examine this issue, they conducted a review of fossil fuel and renewable energy subsidies for those years.

I thank ELI spokespeople Jay Pendergrass and Lisa Goldman for this wonderfully insightful interview.